This Is for the White in Your Eyes

Choir of Young Believers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 18, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Ghostly Int'l
• ASIN: B002G3DTYI
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,199 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Hollow Talk

2. Next Summer

3. These Rituals Of Mine

4. Action/Reaction

5. Under The Moon

6. Wintertime Love

7. She Walks

8. Why Must It Always Be This Way

9. Claustrophobia

10. Yamagata

Disc: 2

1. Burn The Flag

2. Sharpen Your Knife

3. We Talk On The Phone

4. Riot

Editorial Reviews

Review

Whether or not Denmark's Choir Of Young Believers wants to be compared to Fleet Foxes, the Pixes or Roy Orbison is, well, up to them. --Magnet Magazine

..like hearing Radiohead's Thom Yorke in the middle of a Sixties Roy Orbison single, an effect Makrigiannis repeatedly achieves on the album, which is released here by Ghostly International on August 18th. Let the buzz begin. --David Fricke/Rolling Stone

Product Description

Even though This Is for the Whites in Your Eyes, the full-length debut by Danish collective Choir of Young Believers, is teeming with instruments voices, pianos, synthesizers, banjos, an orchestra s ransom in strings and French horns it s not the arrangements that dominate so much as the images they conjure. Snow-flecked mountaintops, deserted city streets, ghost-filled churches, a final kiss between estranged lovers this is the emotional terrain trod by Jannis Joya Makrigiannis and his Choir of Young Believers. This Is for the Whites in Your Eyes is an album of orchestral indie-pop, but its artistic scope extends beyond melody and harmony: Choir of Young Believers paint cinematic tableaux, with Jannis cast as the silvery voiced narrator.

Full length CD includes bonus CD EP Burn The Flag

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ambitious, Grandly Scaled Indie Pop Debut, September 27, 2009

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This review is from: This Is for the White in Your Eyes (Audio CD)

This Is For The White In Your Eyes, the new album from Denmark based band Choir Of Young Believers, is one of those ambitious, grandly scaled albums of indie pop that might've ended up silly and overwrought in lesser hands, but instead turned out to be a moody, serious minded, sometimes even sublime collection of music The band has earned some Radiohead comparisons, though I imagine mostly for the lead vocals, which do recall Thom Yorke at times. Musically, however, they have more of a folk foundation, upon which they layer orchestral pop, soul and rock. Their musical influences certainly shine through, but it's the execution of the music that's the real draw here. It's consistently, almost hypnotically good, with many of the tracks flowing into each other. Certainly recommended for indie pop fans, but for everyone, really. Standout cuts: "Hollow Tree," "Next Summer," "Action/Reaction" and "Claustrophobia."

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Overall - but some songs were ruined (in my opinion) by some odd vocals, October 16, 2010

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This review is from: This Is for the White in Your Eyes (Audio CD)

There are a few songs I really liked. I bought this CD after hearing about the group on the radio in a segment called "Music That Makes You Cooler" ([...]). My favorite songs were:

- Next Summer (best one in my opinion)
- Action/Reaction
- Under the Moon (although at the end of this I thought my CD player was flipping out or skipping - weird noises)
- Why Must It Always Be This Way
- She Walks
- These Rituals of Mine
- Wintertime Love
- Claustrophobia

Although there is definitely some great music, some of it is odd. There were songs on there with an unnerving/wierd twist. My daughter and I actually looked at each other like "What the heck??" a couple of times when we first listened to the CD. I think most of them were on the second CD.

Listen to the whole album before you buy it: [...]